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Gerald McRaney

Gerald McRaney
Gerald McRaney
Born: Aug 19, 1947 in Collins, Mississippi
Occupation: Actor, Director,
Active: '70s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Thriller
Career Highlights: Hansel & Gretel, Love and Curses... And All That Jazz, Vestige of Honor
First Major Screen Credit: Simon & Simon (1981)
8 Videos for Gerald McRaney
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Murder by Moonlight (1991) American Justice (1986)
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Biography:

Gerald McRaney was 14 when he was possessed with the notion to become an actor. Five years later, McRaney landed a job with a New Orleans rep company, laboring away as an oil-field worker during the off-season. In 1969, he made his film bow in the Southern-fried cheapie The Night of Bloody Horror.

Moving to LA in 1971, he took acting lessons with Jeff Corey, struggling to lose his Mississippi accent, and drove a cab between TV jobs. For nearly a decade, McRaney paid the rent by playing murderers, psychos and rapists. The actor was finally humanized as down-home, college-educated private eye Rick Simon on the breezy detective series Simon and Simon, which ran from 1981 to 1988.

After this, he was briefly considered for the starring role in Coach; instead, he was cast as Marine major J. D. Mac McGillis in the long-running (1989-93) family sitcom Major Dad. He made his directorial debut with the 1991 TV movie Love and Curses...And All That Jazz, in which he also starred.

In 1995, he was brought in to hypo the flagging CBS drama series Central Park West; when this series tanked, he resurfaced as the star of the family values weekly drama Promised Land (1996), a spin-off of his guest appearance on TV's Touched by an Angel. McRaney's second wife was Designing Woman co-star Delta Burke.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.